Friday, October 30, 2015

Day 5 of the week-long 2015 Crossroads Blog Tour spotlights authors Sarah Bromley and Judith Graves. We thank the authors for taking the time to answer our questions. Don't forget to enter the giveaway. This tour, presented by Leap Books, can be followed on Twitter@TheCrossroadsBT and Facebook.

Author Sarah Bromley

Sarah
Bromley drinks too much coffee, likes her music loud and off-key, and has loved
spooky things since she first saw “An American Werewolf in London” when she was
five years old.

She currently lives in the St. Louis area with her
high-school-sweetheart-turned-heroic-husband, three children, and her dogs.

I
was trick-or-treating when a dark car with black windows chased me several
blocks. It was terrifying!

What is your favorite thing to do during the Halloween
season?

I
love decorating and watching horror movies for the whole month!

Winter
in Black Orchard, Wisconsin, is long and dark, and sixteen-year-old Vayda
Silver prays the snow will keep the truth and secrecy of the last two years
buried. Hiding from the past with her father and twin brother, Vayda knows the
rules: never return to the town of her mother’s murder, and never work a Mind
Game where someone might see.

No one can know the toll emotions take on Vayda, how emotion becomes energy in
her hands, or how she can’t control the destruction she causes. But it's not
long before her powers can no longer be contained. The truth is dangerously
close to being exposed, placing Vayda and her family at risk.

Until someone quiets the chaos inside her.

Unwanted. That's all Ward Ravenscroft has ever been. To cope, he numbs the pain
of rejection by denying himself emotions of any kind. Yet Vayda stirs something
in him. He can't explain the hold she has on him--inspiring him with both hope
and fear. He claims not to scare easily, except he doesn't know what her powers
can do. Yet.

Just as Vayda and Ward draw closer, she finds the past isn't so easily buried.
And when it follows the Silvers to Black Orchard, it has murder in mind.

"Richly written, A MURDER OF MAGPIES isn't a book to be read, but one to
be devoured by the light of a dying fire. Sarah Bromley will pull readers in
and have them glancing constantly over their shoulder, where the ghosts of the
past await them."
- New York Times bestselling author Heather Brewer

"A MURDER O MAGPIES is one of those books I couldn't put down... a little
bit mystery, a little bit horror, a little bit love story--there's something
for everyone on these pages. Rich, well-written, and different in a genre
desperate for something a little bit different..." -- Hillary Monahan,
author of MARY: THE SUMMONING

Award-winning writer and screenwriter
Judith Graves loves tragic romance, werewolves, vampires, magic and all things
a bit creepy. A firm believer that teen fiction can be action-packed, snarky
and yet hit all the right emotional notes, Judith writes stories with attitude.
She lives in northern Alberta and when she’s not writing, or playing bass in a
cover band, she works in a school library.

The time my aunt visited from Alaska and gave me an
antique, creepy as hell, porcelain doll as gift. I still have nightmares about
it waiting for me to fall asleep so it could come to life.

What is your favorite thing to do during the Halloween
season?

Get a roaring fire going, settle in with some popcorn,
and binge watch horror movies.

Fright
Before Christmas: 13 Tales of Holiday Horrors

It’s the most wonderful time of year…or is it?

Christmas Eve is a night of
mystery and magic, but not always in ways we expect. Things lurk in the shadows
and they’re not the least bit jolly or merry. Let’s just say some presents are
better left unopened.

‘Tis the season to be
screaming along with our thirteen tales of holiday horrors. Ghosts. Monsters.
Demons. And more!